100-Year McCain Has a Sadr Moment (As Does Joe Lieberman)

Posted by Blue Texan, Firedoglake at 11:12 AM on April 2, 2008.

St. McCain is quickly becoming the Miss Teen South Carolina of the GOP with yet still another Iraq gaffe.

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St. McCain is quickly becoming the Lauren Caitlin Upton of the GOP with yet still another Iraq gaffe:

In an interview with CNN earlier today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) claimed that he has long understood the influence of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr:

I said he was still major player and his influence is going to have to be reduced and gradually eliminated.

But in a report on The Situation Room today, the network noted that just two weeks ago McCain -- trying to paint a rosy picture of Iraq -- described Sadr very differently while speaking to CNN's John King in Baghdad:

His [Sadr's] influence has been on the wane for a long time.

Yikes.

Meanwhile, Joe Lieberman, pimping his BFF on Fixed News, seems to be equally confused.

If we did what Sen. Obama wanted us to do last year, Al-Qaeda in Iran would be in control of Iraq today.

Apparently, St. McCain's cluelessness is contagious. It's only a matter of time before he starts putting a "the" before "Iran." I mean, Iraq.

Whatever.

Tagged as: iraq, lieberman, mccain, al-sadr

Blue Texan is a regular contributing blogger for FireDogLake.

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couldn't get it right [Report this comment] Posted by: KaptainSpiffy on Apr 2, 2008 11:38 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] without liberman's hand up his ass. stupid wooden-headed puppet. it's not the 1960's. you don't get to win in vietnam by having a 'do-over' in iraq. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: couldn't get it right Posted by: drsivana99 Yep... [Report this comment] Posted by: JoshuaLudd on Apr 2, 2008 11:49 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Whatever the situation is right now... I predicted it. No matter what it is. Yeah... I trust McCain to be president and have to deal with all of this, don't you? [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] McCain [Report this comment] Posted by: indepentent on Apr 2, 2008 1:39 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] is just another Bush! Dumb Dumber and Dumbest! [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Having spent most of 1968 in Vietnam, I still wasn't aware that [Report this comment] Posted by: thekidde on Apr 3, 2008 7:28 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] the NVA were doing lobotomies on POWs. I guess McDunce proves they were. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] What did you expect? [Report this comment] Posted by: outlander55 on Apr 3, 2008 8:06 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Here he goes again. What is in the kool aid he drinks? It is definately altering his reality to the point that this is one bad trip. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] The bar's on the ground, and McCain's bringin' a shovel [Report this comment] Posted by: drsivana99 on Apr 3, 2008 10:15 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Oh, absolutely. Any man who can achieve the almost unthinkable status of appearing even dumber and more out of touch than George W. Bush has something otherworldly about him. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Suasponte [Report this comment] Posted by: Suasponte on Apr 4, 2008 7:02 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Not to worry. The ultra-Right, quasi-Fascist Republican lunatics who own and control the Military-Industrial-Compliant Media Complex will see to McBush's behaving himself as they see fit, just as has been the case with the Puppet Bush for the last painful seven years, so that a victory for McBush means more of the same for another four years. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

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